The bibliographic "impact factor" of the Institute for Scientific Information: how relevant is it really for public health journals?
The bibliographic "impact factor" of the Institute for Scientific Information: how relevant is it really for public health journals?
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科学信息研究所的书目“影响因子”:它与公共卫生期刊的相关性如何?
DOI:
10.1136/jech.50.6.606
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发表时间:
1996
影响因子:
6.3
通讯作者:
M. Porta
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作者:
M. Porta
For reasons that few of us would pretend to comprehend, the so called "impact factor" has become the starring bibliometric indicator of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), themselves a major product of the Institute for Scientific Information, Inc (ISI) in the field of information science. Importantly, there are different JCR editions; in the health sciences the best known is the Science Citation Index JCR, while the Social Sciences Citation Index JCR, the Nursing Citation Index JCR, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index JCR have lower profiles. Journals on epidemiology, preventive medicine, public health, and community health are essentially covered in the first two of these editions.23 The company produces still other well known products and services, such as the newsletter, Science Watch, and several editions ofCurrent